Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:45 +0100 From: roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch To: Rasmus Skaarup <freebsd-mobile@gal.dk>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STABLE vs. CURRENT for laptops Message-ID: <20020303143845.A28869@klee.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <20020302192145.C90203-100000@skaarup.org>; from Rasmus Skaarup on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:29:39PM %2B0100 References: <20020302192145.C90203-100000@skaarup.org>
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> As described in an e-mail I sent a few days ago > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=254419+0+current/freebsd-mobile > > I'm having problems with my Dell Inspiron 4100 with a Dell TrueMobile (in > fact an Orinoco Gold) Mini-PCI card. I am wondering whether or not it > will help to use 5.0-CURRENT instead of 4.5-STABLE as I am now - is there > any new features in 5.0 which could make life with a laptop better or > easier? > > In particular I am thinking of features like: > > - being able to fetch the battery status > - after being in standby mode, sound will still work > - a remote possibility for my wireless NIC to work again I just received my inspirion 4100 with that mini pci card a few days ago. I also though that current was a nice idea for laptops and installed it, but threw it right off the disk again. Here's why: Every 10 seconds or so, the machine seemed to hang for one or two seconds. When that happened while you were typing, a few chars just got lost. Especially annoying when typing passwords. And I had also considerable problems when building ports, the first few succeeded, but then when I tried to build portupgrade, it hung again during configure and that was it. Granted, this was my first attempt in using current, but I figured that I am better off with stable. As for the TrueMobile card, I am not that far with installing my system. That card looks like a carbus card, which would mean that there is no go with stable. I also read somewhere that cardbus support will most likely not be integrated into the 4.x branch. But I found this: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/163/2001/7/0/6285797/ I don't really know what to make of this... could mean the card works anyway. Anyone (John Hay?) got that card working? Is it even possible? greets, Tobe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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